The Loving couple's fight for interracial marriage

This couple's fight for interracial marriage changed America 53 years ago. This is the story of Richard and Mildred Loving.

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00:00It changed the constitution of the United States, and I was so baffled that it wasn't more well known.

00:23I say I think that marrying who you want to is a right that no man should have anything to do with.

00:29It's a God-given right, I think.

00:45It's important because it makes us realize what so many people in the black community had to live under in the Jim Crow South,

00:52and a lot of people that probably live under it today.

00:55You know, this psychological oppression.

01:15I guess the worst thing is spending a little time in jail. That's the worst thing.

01:55This is something we should talk about in schools. The importance that it had to the civil rights movement,

01:59but also the importance that it has to America, and the fabric of our country that is very relevant today.

02:25I truly believe this is one of the most pure love stories in American history.